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Noun: Fanny Adams
Usage: Brit, informal
  1. Nautical term for tinned meat
     
  2. Little or nothing at all
    "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery";
    - sweet Fanny Adams [Brit, informal]

Type of: aught [archaic], canned meat, cipher, cypher, goose egg [N. Amer, informal], nada [N. Amer, informal], naught [N. Amer], nil, nix [informal], nothing, nought [Brit], null, tinned meat, zero, zilch [informal], zip, zippo [N. Amer, informal]

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